A Take Two Digital charge on your card statement is a one-time purchase of virtual “coins” on one of the online dating sites run by Take Two Digital Ltd, a Cyprus-registered company that operates roughly 113 differently branded dating and hookup portals.1Checkao. Take Two Digital LTD Review The coins are spent to send messages, photos, and stickers inside the site. It is not a subscription and will not recur on its own, but if you don’t recognize it, the reason is usually that the site’s brand name looks nothing like “Take Two Digital.”
How the Charge Appears and What You Paid For
The descriptor on the statement reads “Take Two Digital Ltd.” The charge corresponds to a coin package bought on one of the company’s dating sites, priced from €9.99 for 200 coins up to €199.99 for 6,000 coins.1Checkao. Take Two Digital LTD Review Coins are consumed at 40 per message, photo, or sticker, which works out to about €2 per interaction. Unused coins expire 90 days after the user’s last login. Payments are taken on Visa and MasterCard.
Because the company runs well over a hundred domains, the brand a user actually visited is almost never “Take Two Digital.” Reported site names include Only-Flirts.com, Pukbo.com, Seek-Dating.com, MilfPair.com, AdultFinderX.com, Got2Meets.com, and GameOfDating.com, among many others.1Checkao. Take Two Digital LTD Review If any of those look familiar to you or to someone else with access to the card, that is the source.
Why This Charge Often Surprises People
The sites share a common model. A user signs up, builds a profile, and is quickly prompted to buy coins to talk to other members. What the terms and conditions disclose, in language easy to miss, is that the company “operates system profiles” and “expressly reserves the right to chat with users through such system profiles to enhance the users’ entertainment experience.”1Checkao. Take Two Digital LTD Review
A 2023 Wired investigation reported that conversations on portals run by Take Two Digital and a similar operator, Meet Us Media, are handled by freelance workers hired through intermediaries such as vDesk in Cyprus and the Swiss firm Cloudworkers. The workers are titled “customer support representatives” but staff fake personas and are discouraged from letting users move to other apps or arrange meetings, because that would end the coin spending. Researchers at Georgia State University’s evidence-based cybersecurity research group told Wired the model sits in a “legal gray area” and called it “completely unethical and immoral,” potentially “real deception.” Neither company responded to Wired’s requests for comment.2Wired. This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale
Complaints from users typically describe fast spending followed by the other person going quiet once the coins run out. One account cited spending $70 in 15 minutes before the conversation stopped.1Checkao. Take Two Digital LTD Review
If You Made the Purchase and Want a Refund
Take Two Digital does not publish a central customer service email. Refund requests go through the specific site where the coins were bought, using its contact form or dedicated address, for example support@pukbo.com or support@only-flirts.com.1Checkao. Take Two Digital LTD Review Given how the company earns revenue, results through this route are uncertain.
If You Didn’t Authorize the Charge
First, check with anyone who has access to your card, including household members. Because the site names differ so widely from the billing descriptor, the person who made the purchase may not recognize the “Take Two Digital Ltd.” line either.
If no one in the household recognizes it, call your card issuer and dispute the charge. The Fair Credit Billing Act lets cardholders dispute charges they did not authorize. You can also report the company to the Federal Trade Commission at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.3Federal Trade Commission. Match Group Agrees To Pay $14 Million, Permanently Stop Deceptive Advertising, Cancellation, Billing
Who Take Two Digital Is
Take Two Digital Ltd was incorporated in Cyprus on May 20, 2021, under registration number HE 421792, at 12 Georgiou Saktouri Street, Taliotis Court, 2nd Floor, Suite 202, Paphos.1Checkao. Take Two Digital LTD Review4Take Two Digital. Take Two Digital Ltd Its director and secretary is Kyriakos Christodoulou.5Companies House Cyprus. Take Two Digital LTD – C421792 The company manages about 113 domains, all running variations of the same coin-based chat model.